List of Famous people named Johann

Johann Karl August Musäus was a popular German author and one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1782–1786), a collection of German fairy tales retold as satires.

Johann was last Count of Cleves, from 1347 through 1368. Upon his death in 1368, the counties of Cleves and Count of Mark were united.

John Zacharias (Zachary) Kneller, originally Johann Zacharias Kniller, was a German Baroque painter active in England, best known as the brother of Sir Godfrey Kneller. His youngest brother was organist Andreas Kneller.

Johann Christoph Denner was a German woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, to whom the invention of the clarinet is attributed.

Johann Caspar Goethe was a wealthy German jurist and royal councillor to the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire. His son, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is considered one of the greatest German poets and authors of all time.

Johann Georg Christian Kestner was a German lawyer and archivist. He is also notable as the model for Lotte's husband Albert in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, with Kestner's fiancée Charlotte Buff used as the model for Lotte herself.

Johann Urb is an Estonian-American actor, film producer and former model.